Thought of the day: You can’t know God through facts. You can’t get to God through knowledge, logic, science or reason. Though the gap is small, there is a chasm between facts and God. One may think that if they can only dig a bit deeper, they will find the place where the two connect.
Motivation
I’ve been feeling moved to do better in a couple of areas recently. I was pondering this tonight, and questioned what my motivation is. Am I doing this to improve myself, to make me a better person? Am I doing this because I don’t want the embarrassment of people seeing me as less than perfect?
From Eternity to Here Questions
Today I am participating in a “blog circuit event” promoting Frank Viola’s most recent book, “From Eternity to Here”. Bloggers have been given the chance to ask Frank a couple of questions regarding the book, and everyone is posting his replies today. I wanted to ask some real, honest questions as opposed to simple blog
Change Congress
Here’s an interesting article on the relatively new organization, Change Congress. Its main initial focus is to reduce the influence of money on law-making, through grassroots efforts to expose ties legislators have to campaign funding, and to promote those legislators who commit to not taking money from special interest groups. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/stanford-law-pr.html http://change-congress.org/
Quote
“Genuine intimacy is always life-giving—romantic or nonromantic. The “reciprocal communication of selves is the most humanizing and life-giving activity, and it is the lifeblood of friendship—whether it be friendship with God, the special friendship of marriage, or friendship with others.” http://danbrennan.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Killing Gossip
A number of years ago I went to a prayer meeting at the church I was attending at the time. While the meeting was open, it was primarily attended by the leaders of the church (including both staff and lay leaders). The monthly event typically saw probably 100-200 people in attendance. This particular night, one
Palm Sunday and Easter: Living A Transformed Life
(Note: After having written this and gone back and reviewed it, I realize that it feels that once again I have not communicated as clearly as I wish. One recognized problem is that I am attempting not to make a single point, but a series of related points. Basically what I’m getting at is this:
Priorities
Recently I’ve been thinking about my life’s priorities as a way of understanding decisions I make regarding how I spend my time. This has a lot to do with the fact that I’m now working full time and my time is therefore much tighter. My first priority that I’ve identified is survival. Of course put
The Party is Over: The Coming Evangelical Collapse
Apparently this article from the Internet Monk (Michael Spencer) has garnered a significant amount of attention and sparked a good amount of discussion (especially online) since it was published a few weeks ago. I agree with most of what he has said, and it’s something that I’ve felt for years. I grew up in the
Church Recap
For those who are interested, this past week in our house church we looked at two blogs. The first one, “poultrygeist”, encourages us to not think that we can’t serve God because of some limiting factor in our lives. The second article (“Have You Heard?”) is great for starting discussions and making us think about